copyright © 2002 Shannon McCormick

Legless Cheetah

 

by Shannon McCormick

 

 

Legless Cheetah?

Man, Legless Cheetah was the fastest—and meanest—tube of all time.

"Legless Cheetah" IS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL AND MAY NOT BE DOWNLOADED, TRANSMITTED, PRINTED OR PERFORMED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR
AUTHOR'S NOTES:
I've been interested recently in how short one can make a piece that is both text-driven and theatrical. I performed this piece while smoking, with one leg up on a chair. The first line was delivered as if the audience had just asked me about a legendary character whom I remembered fondly. The second line was delivered with slight pauses built in around the words. At the end, I exhaled a big cloud of smoke and looked wistfully into the distance while the lights came down slowly.

If anyone is interested in performing this, they can play around with the delivery however he or she chooses, but the delivery described above worked really well.

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